Los Angeles, CA – An animal rights group sued the California Department of Food and Agriculture on Monday, seeking to end the electric stunning of chickens before they are slaughtered.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claims in the lawsuit that up to one-third of the birds, about 7 million a year, are inadequately stunned by the procedure, leaving them conscious and able to feel pain when their throats are slit.
“By permitting electric stunning, the California Department of Food and Agriculture sentences tens of millions of birds each year to excruciating pain and terrible deaths,” PETA’s general counsel, Jeffrey Kerr, said in a statement.
“PETA’s lawsuit seeks to end this illegal killing — and initiate sweeping changes in an industry that currently slits conscious birds’ throats and scalds them to death,” Kerr said.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, argues that electric stunning of chickens violates the state’s humane slaughter law, which requires that animals be rendered unconscious and unable to feel pain before they are killed.
A spokesman for the California agency could not be reached for comment on the legal action.
between the loonie liberals in USA and the crazy Islamic extremists all over the world, the world is becoming a crazy place to live.
PETA sickos are concerned for chickens that are our food and created for that purpose but care nothing and say nothing in protest over the killings/murder of innocent humans by ISIS.
We can rant and rave against PETA all we want, but the fact remains that it has a formidable political voice and can have a major impact on the availability of kosher meat if we’re not vigilant.
While stunning is not allowed in kosher slaughter, PETA’s campaign to ban the slaughter of conscious animals, if successful, would be devastating, r”l.
1000%
Because of their nonsense the price of meat, chicken, eggs etc keeps on going through the roof.